Nollywood veteran actress, Joke Silva, in an interview with revered broadcaster, Funmi Iyanda, revealed that she was an adopted child to her parents.
Revealing that she discovered that the late Dr Abimbola Silva, the first Nigerian female medical doctor, wasn’t her biological mother, the movie star said she was a teenager when she accidentally knew.
Speaking of her adoption, she said: “It something like where one is just getting to share it in the public. It is something that I found out when I was much younger. Mine was a secret adoption.
“When I mean secret it was legal but it was not something that my parents discussed. My mum’s elder sister wanted me to travel with her to Kenya and my mother was not around. She asked If I knew where my passport was and I was like yes yes yes, I know where mum keeps all the important documents.
“Then I go to the important suitcase that has all the important documents, where I found my passport but also found my adoption certificate. It was like ‘I beg your pardon.
“You know how sensitive you are as a child in the sense that there was just something and you’d be like if this is something they wanted to discuss with you, they would have discussed with you.
“So after the years, we got to the point where we could discuss it, especially myself and my mum. What was interesting was the fact that she found it easier to discuss it with my older son than she did with me.”
Joke went to reveal that she finally had the conversation with her mum after someone confronted her about being her biological daughter.
